Poll: Daily Chatter on Fox News Is Less Civilized Than Twitter

The daily chatter on Fox News is less civilized than the constant
stream of tweets, rants and witticisms on Twitter, finds a new poll
asking Americans to assign a degree of incivility to 25 American
institutions. The survey, conducted by Weber Shandwich and Powell Tate
in partnership with KRC Research, polled 1,000 Americans about uncivil
behavior in American society. The findings went beyond the conservative
cable news channel and the microblogging service. The most uncivil
institutions in the country were pop culture (75 percent incivility
rating), media (74 percent), government (73 percent) and the music
industry (71 percent). Fox News came in at 51 percent and Twitter came
in at 38 percent followed by MSNBC, 37 percent, and CNN, 32 percent. The
survey didn't offer a definition of uncivil behavior but one can
imagine the most uncivil aspects of Twitter and Fox News being like some
sort of contest between Glenn Beck and Greg Gutfeld on one side and ShitMyDadSays and Cranky Kaplan on the other. Politico
published the whole incivility list this morning. One does wonder, of
course, if part of this has to do with how many people have or haven't
actually been on Twitter.